CDFA activates more fairgrounds for fire evacuations 09/30/20 10:11 AM By Brad Hooker CDFA has activated more fairgrounds to act as animal shelters, evacuation centers and fire camps.Read More
Disease, wildfires and rats: Water quality regulation raises more issues for growers 09/30/20 9:25 AM By Brad Hooker Farmers worry that a regulation requiring vegetative buffers along waterways could create habitat for invasive pests as well as fuel for wildfires.Read More
Daybreak: Drought deepens in California 09/29/20 10:38 AM By Brad Hooker Housing the homeless on a farm * Drought deepens * New aid bill keeps ag provisions * CFAP-2 will aid farmers into 2021Read More
Wine industry: Extend disaster payments for wildfires 09/22/20 11:47 AM Wine groups in California, Washington and Oregon are calling on Congress to extend the wildfire and hurricane relief program.Read More
Daybreak: Glyphosate as a tool for sustainability 09/17/20 1:08 PM By Brad Hooker Conservationists eye SGMA fallowing * Trump to GOP: Back ‘higher’ COVID aid * Are farm payments ‘socialist?’Read More
USDA expands California SNAP benefits during wildfires 09/17/20 12:52 PM By Brad Hooker USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service has approved California waivers for purchasing foods through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.Read More
Daybreak: Newsom extends paid sick leave 09/11/20 7:35 PM By Brad Hooker Costa talks aid bill, fires and farm bill * Dems: COVID aid not dead yetRead More
Daybreak: USDA offers farmers help with wildfires 08/25/20 4:58 PM By Brad Hooker UC ditches plastic containers * Cut flowers on the outs * Trump: China trade war a winning issue * Trump extends Food Box programRead More
Daybreak: DPR extends neonics comment period 08/24/20 11:27 AM By Brad Hooker Newsom responds to farmworker infections * Ross: State can be more diverse * Eligibility rules may challenge big farms * Trump promotes food boxesRead More
Daybreak: Will others copy Mexico’s glyphosate ban? 08/21/20 1:07 PM By Brad Hooker Incentives bills for ag are cut * Free N95s for smoke * AG takes on egg farm * H-2A approvals up * Organic calls for climate aidRead More